Kinect sold 114,000 units in Japan in its first year

Microsoft's Kinect peripheral has moved 114,000 units during its first year on sale in Japan.According to Famitsu, as translated by Andriasang, sales of the system are currently at around 2000 units per month, with its best performance coming in December 2010 when it managed 43,200.Here's the full month-by-month breakdown:

November 2010: 27,800

December 2010: 43,200

January 2011: 14,800

February 2011: 5040

March 2011: 3160

April 2011: 2100

May 2011: 1910

June 2011: 3470

July 2011: 2980

August 2011: 2460

September 2011: 1900

October 2011: 3333

November 2011: 1980

Famitsu also published a list of the top 10 best-performing Kinect-enabled games. The only title that has managed to sell more than 25,000 copies is Kinect Adventures, but only by virtue of being bundled with the device.Aside from Kinect Adventures, the best-selling Kinect-only title is Konami's DanceEvolution, with 22,400 copies sold.

Kinect Adventures: 114,000

Forza Motorsport 4: 24,900

DanceEvolution: 22,400

Kinect Sports: 13,000

You Shape Fitness Evolved: 12,300

Dance Central: 8690

Kinectimals: 5350

New Brain Training 4930

Sonic Free Riders: 4160

Fighters Uncaged: 3470

Back in February this year, Microsoft announced that it had sold 10 million Kinect systems worldwide. That figure hasn't been updated since.As of last week, Microsoft had sold 1,519,214 million Xbox 360 consoles in Japan since launch.